GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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yen | a strong desire or propensity |
inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |